The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-05-27
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NO q.
rhe verY idea of \ competitiye

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examination is quite, paralyzing,
for they know little spelling, and
less arithm etic. Geography,
mahography, physics and hyster-
les are all the same to them.
Already there those are who haye
advertised TO prepare. applicants
for civil service examination.
But The fact remains thatan educa-
ton cannot be inIprovised, and the
middle aged Republican clerks
who havesimpaircdtheir minds as
well MS their hearts in straining to
Keep alive the memories and the
policy Of the war, have novitallty
left for the study Of text books.
The past added another to
the mems pageants which Washing
ton has witnessed. The Statue
Of Garfield was unveiled with
much parade and oratoTas Exs
Speaker kiefu made a proliy and
turgid address. The President
had hard role TO enact as rep
rosentalivo of the Nation inaccep-
ting The monument, which he did
in little speech which was not
very bad, considering The neces-
saty cmbarassment which q we'll
informed honest man must feel
for thea narrow pmtisan, and q
Pres. who was the weak puppet of
Blaine. IL the President well
Informed? Has be forgotten the
part that Garfield took 10 de
fraudmg thc country Of its'chosen
rcs'ideut in 1852 iIas he
forgotten that IL was this same
man who from, the stump told
Republican audiences, in eras of
peace, twenty years after the war,
60 look along tho baffcls Of their
rifles and vote ms they shot? Say
nothing but good Of the dcadS
| Classlc bosh! Then erect statues
in honor of Nero and Judas
lscariot, for they too are dead.
am sick Of these everlasting
statues to spurious mushroom
fame. Tilclon, whom Garfield
defrauded Of the Presidency, and
thus made his own election pos
sible, can afford to wait 4 hundred
wears lor III statue. but when il
| ia built. no ono look1no ever at
washington monument should
bo ahle Is M excelsior
adtcm captains S~itl ,bcir guns and drums
m 9sigFo e 70, on Mind Indictment ga,,s t9r lae a0i
These all are Eanp, aaod, stahiihg like .
our cb,i,,oa lpTsG si,sii behold ma faucs
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TIE iDsAl hooss os 1si toione 'lI'. -.
There is no ooubt that the IDEAL
house Of the futute, whether large
or small, viii be IL The country,
and that this missing together Of
humanity, to be found now IN our
Il EiNos NlbiNsf Ntlt NDNl~ sS4s 'tN arytt
sldered simply barbaiQus. Even
for che rich, who can clam fullest
space, the city, with It's pnder-c'lr-
rent Of crowded, fostering, nor
some life, holds unconscious con-
taminatiop; while for the poor
themselves, what word is strong
| enough 10 express the degradation
of the word home that is theirs!
4 Nor s il possible, even under
the most favorable circumstances.
10 count ''llats," or apartments,
z as anything more than thetravesty
ofcomiort in it's bestsense. Rus
kin is right when be sdenles to
cities any possibility OF the best
degclopmenttor human life5 and,
thoughithe have their uses, and
we could i'll dispense With many
good things to winch theyahaye
given birth, they are responsible
for snch hideous eSlls Tint one
longs ut momeuts 70 seci them,
theirprlde, and thcirmagnlbecnce
and ''the bitter1cry OF outeast'
life in their midst, engulfed hike
those lost cltiesof Old. sysa 8